* Today in Black History - November 15 *
218 - Hannibal, North African military genius, crosses the
BC Alps with elephants and 26,000 men in an expedition
to capture Rome.
1805 - Explorers Lewis and Clark reach the mouth of the
Columbia River. Accompanying them on their expedition
is a slave named York, who, while technically Clark's
valet, distinguished himself as a scout, interpreter,
and emissary to the Native Americans encountered on
the expedition.
1825 - African American feminist, Sarah Jane Woodson, is born
in Chillicothe, Ohio.
1884 - The Berlin Conference, of European nations, is organized
by German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck to decide issues
regarding the colonization of Africa. The Europeans
attending the conference, decide which parts of the
African continent would be "owned" by the participants,
"allowing" only Liberia and Ethiopia to remain free
countries. Representatives from Great Britain, France,
Germany, Portugal, and Belgium negotiate their claims
to African territory and establish a framework for
making and negotiating future claims. Obviously, there
is no one representing Africans at this conference. By
1900, nearly 90 percent of African territory will be
claimed by European states.
1887 - Granville T. Woods receives a patent for the Synchronous
Multiplier Railway Telegraph.
1897 - Langston University, a public co-educational institution,
is founded in Langston, Oklahoma.
1897 - Voorhees College, a private co-educational institution
affiliated with the Episcopal Church, is founded in
Denmark, South Carolina.
1897 - John Mercer Langston joins the ancestors at the age of
67, in Washington, DC.
1928 - Roland Hayes opens his fifth American Tour at New York's
Carnegie Hall packed with admirers.
1930 - Whitman Mayo, actor (Grady -"Sanford & Son"), is born in
New York City.
1937 - Yaphet Kotto, actor ("Brubaker", "Alien", "Raid on
Entebbe", "Eye of the Tiger", "Roots", "Live and Let
Die", "Midnight Run", and TV's "Homicide"), is born in
New York City.
1950 - Dr. Arthur Dorrington, a dentist, becomes the first
African American in organized hockey to suit up, a
member of the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern
Amateur Hockey League.
1960 - Elgin Baylor, of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points
against the New York Knicks.
1969 - The Amistad Research Center is incorporated as an
independent archive, library, & museum dedicated to
preserving African American & ethnic history and culture.
The center collects original source materials on the
history of the nation's ethnic minorities and race
relations in the United States (over 10 million
documents). The Amistad was organized by the Race
Relations Department of Fisk University and the American
Missionary Association in 1966. The library is now
located in Tilton Hall on the campus of Tulane University
in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1976 - The Plains Baptist Church, home church of President Jimmy
Carter, votes to admit African American worshipers. The
church had been under pressure to admit African Americans
since Reverend Clennon King had announced his intentions
to join the congregation.
1979 - The Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Professor
Arthur Lewis of Princeton University. He is the first
African American to receive the coveted prize in a
category other than peace.
1979 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to Rosa L. Parks, who
was the Catalyst in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
of 1955-56.
1989 - President George Bush signs a bill to rename a Houston,
Texas, federal building after George Thomas "Mickey"
Leland, the Houston congressman who died in a plane crash
earlier in the year.
1998 - Kwame Ture succumbs to prostate cancer in Guinea and joins
the ancestors at age 57. He was born Stokely Carmichael
in the country of Trinidad (1941) and in 1966 coined the
phrase, "Black Power."
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